How we classify gender has come up for the second time in a month. First, Naomi Gleit on the Facebook Blog, brought up the subject during a discussion about the difficulties that translating Facebook user gender classifications into multiple languages: … Continue reading
“The Long Run: As a Professor, Obama Enthralled Students and Puzzled Faculty,” is an interesting article by Jodi Kantor that will appear in tomorrow’s print edition of the New York Times. Kantor has some wonderful phrasings, like here when she … Continue reading
I’ve been telling students for years that 99% of the future of web design is redesign, which is why the major project in my web design course is redesigning a large-scale web site. Looks like two brothers had the same … Continue reading
These photographs were taken in May, June, and July, 2008, and are representative of what I was seeing in Iceland, France, Germany, and Massachusetts. There in roughly the order in which they were taken. See also What I’ve been seeing … Continue reading